Anyone into R/C?

I just sniped a brand new, in packages FT ball diff w/ bearings, cases, the works for 35

 

Is anyone looking for a new replacement engine? Im trying to move this one so I can get a truggy some kid in the neighborhood is selling cheap. I am looking to get $200 has 3 shoe clutch & bb bell on it already. Brand new never installed.

Ofna Racing Picco .26 Max JL Red Dot Engine W/Pull-Start - Ofn part #51225

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Designed to Fit All T-Max and Revo Applications * Modified Crank * JLR Red-Dot Technology * CNC Cooling Head * Timing has been Changed to Create More Top End with a big block exhaust.

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you should sell it on rctech, way more RC people there

 

People forget that the glitching problem has to do with the internal bec in the esc 99% of the time. I have had 0 problems with my savox servos, except when I ran a shitty ezrun esc.

 

^this

 

Well i ordered the rx8/tekin 1900kv combo, savox 1256tg, and 2 sets of aka motos mounted for my dad, also threw in 2 sets of aka city blocks for my truggy, figured since im spending that much might as well get something for me..

I had a glitching issue and a range issue with my slash, turns out my motor/esc wires were too long, shortened them up and its good to go.

 

I've seen more than a few times with Tekin RX8s (6v and 5amp) BECs. And again some never have the problem. You can read about it all you want, and more over on RCTech. Just search "Savox Spectrum brown out".

 

you're talking about two different things lol it's either the tekin rx8 or its the spektrum and savox. As I run spektrum and savox on a few tracks including near 2 international airports 1 of which was inside a giant metal building.. I've never glitched. I'm more inclined to blame Rx8.

I have however had my 1/8 go into failsafe for a second but that uses airtronics.

 

The only reason I brought up Tekin was in response to Taco saying the only time he'd had a issue was running lesser ESCs. RX8s put out 6v 5amp for the servo. Again, I've seen the very same set-ups, some with, some with out the issue. There's a few hundred pages on RCTech concerning it. Castle can have these issues as well, prolly why they make the external BEC.

 

You keep saying glitch, which is radio inference of some sort. This is brown out, were the servo pulls more power than the reciever can provide.

 

I'm running 2 airtronics servos and the receiver handles it fine lol I'm not convinced there's a brown out. Rx8's internal BEC maybe but not internal BECs in general nor the receiver

 

Airtronics are not known for it, mostly Savox. Here's you a link.

http://www.rctech.net/forum/rookie-zone/656198-spectrum-brown-out-issue-help-print.html

 

This thread confirms what I'm saying lol has nothing to do with the receiver, or servo, it's a shoddy internal BEC. The only people who say its the receiver have an unbacked bias against spektrum. this explains perfectly why I have no problems with my electric car which uses 1 servo, nor my 1/8 that uses 2 much less efficient servos that draw off of a smaller battery.

 

Looks good, so that will ship with my car then?

 

R/C are ***** fast

 

It's the Spectrum receivers inability to pass voltage through, to power hungry Savox servos. I run Spectrum in all my RC cars, with no issues, with a Radiopost, Futaba, and a JR servo. I fly my planes and helis with Spectrum, even using the ultra cheap Orange Rx in them, no problems. The fact remains, that running a Spectrum radio, and Savox servo with any ESC, MAY cause some problems.

 

There is no evidence to support that claim, save the couple people bashing spektrum, the discussion is on BECs.

 

It's funny all these BECs start acting up when swaping servos to a Savox.
One more and I'm done.


http://www.rcshortcourse.com/forum/electronics/34048-possible-brown-out-mmp-external-bec.html

Some if these guys were browning out using Castle 10amp external BECs.

 

Listen, if its an inherent problem with the savox and spektrum combo then you can expect it to happen to a large majority. These things are not home built to random specs. It would be a vast majority of people having problems with it, not a random one or 2 here and there. You are not justified in saying that it's spektrum causing it, it's not good science or deduction.

People are also bashing Castle BEC's for being shitty so once again we can draw only 1 conclusion.. If the item responsible for keeping steady voltage going to the receiver isnt any good, its not the receiver's fault, nor is it the savox's fault.

Everything being discussed is extremely vague "the spektrum guys always have problems" Well at all the tracks I've been to where the bulk of people are running spektrum, it's not something anyone discusses.. because it doesnt happen. So who's opinion is fact?

Explain how I've been running this combo for months now and have not had so much as a stutter from my car? If the combo is bad then the combo is bad, it's something you can replicate. You don't get to try and sway people away from something and claim they "may" have a problem when you have people speculating that it's this or that. there is no tangible proof of there being anything wrong other than 3rd party speculation and vague generalities about how spektrum just sucks in general.

The whole thing is opposite of scientific, it's a bunch of people circle jerk googling the same info and rehashing it in their own words.

 

Lets just all switch back to 27mhz